Instructors

Yumio Saneyoshi

Yumio Saneyoshi started Penguin Coding School in 2016 after spending over 15 years in the tech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Having worked at numerous companies in Silicon Valley, he witnessed the power of computer programming and the influence that coders wield in creating products and services that have transformed the world. He is the founder of Yahoo! Answers, the world's largest free Question and Answer service used by hundreds of millions of people. His experiences in the Internet industry taught him the importance understanding coding - even if you never intend to be a programmer. He believes passionately that ANYONE CAN CODE - and is working to spread that belief to as many people as possible. Yumio received his BA from Williams College and Masters and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Business Economics.

Shipra Arjun

Shipra is working as a software engineer and has a background in math and computer engineering. She has also worked with numerous organizations that aim to make STEM education more accessible to children and minority groups. Her favorite part of software development is the ability to create a tangible solution to a problem at hand. Shipra hopes others are able to share the excitement (and frustration), as well as, celebrate the little victories, that come with creating and problem solving using code!

Alli Bukys

Having recently returned from teaching math and CS in Cambodia, Alli is a graduate student seeking a MEd to continue teaching as a career! She loves to give seemingly impossible challenges to students and work with them to break down the problem into manageable pieces. She loves that relatively simple blocks of code can be combined to solve actual real-world problems. Currently coding in Java, Python, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and Scratch.

Shriya Joag

Shriya is a professional software developer and teaches dance in her free time. She wants to combine her joy of teaching along with her experience in software development to help kids learn to code. Shriya has a Masters in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon University.

Laura Gould

Laura Gould has worked in education for over 6 years, having been a middle school English and special education teacher, high school English teacher, ESL teacher, and academic tutor. Her interest in coding began in working her way through online programming tutorials, and she quickly developed a passion for learning how to create websites and games using HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Laura loves to show students how anyone can learn how to code, and that with hard work and dedication, students can make something that might have initially seemed impossible!

Chandrama Kadam

Chandrama is a software developer in the greater Boston area. Her interest in teaching began when she started teaching her own son coding. Besides coding, she likes to watch movies and read books.

Ryan Shrey

Ryan is a computer science teacher at a Boston Area public high school. He has been an educator in a variety of settings, and with a variety of age groups, for about 6 years. His interest in coding began with an interest in the "maker" movement and STEM education. The more he used code to create interesting projects, the more he wanted to learn. Ryan likes to show students how they, too, can make something cool happen with code. He likes building websites and games with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python. His favorite part about teaching students to code is seeing students excited about something that they made themselves.

Jamila Siddiqi

Jamila has been involved with education in the roles of both a student and an educator. As a parent and a teacher, she is passionate about nurturing and enhancing core educational skills of children in a safe and friendly environment. Jamila earned a Masters degree in Science from Carleton University, Canada and recently completed Graduate Certificate in Web Development from Boston University.

Kathleen Wardwell

Kathleen Wardwell has 4 years of experience as a elementary classroom teacher and training to become a Web Developer, working with technologies such as HTML, CSS and Javascript. She is a proponent of the growth mindset in how she encourages her students to approach their lessons. She believes that with dedication and hard work a student can cultivate a love of learning and resilience that will serve them their entire lives. When she is not coding or teaching at Penguin Coding School she volunteers as an ESL instructor.

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Monday - Friday
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Saturday - Sunday
9am to 9pm

About Penguin Coding School

Penguin Coding School was started in the fall of 2016 by a Lexington MA dad to turn kids onto the joys of coding. We have developed an unique curriculum that emphasizes the joys of creation as the motivation for learning. We believe coding is a lifelong creative endeavor, and a skill that is becoming increasingly necessary to be a productive citizen in the 21st century.

Coding is collaboration. We think face-to-face interaction with human teachers and other students in class is an important aspect of coding.
Above all we want every student to learn that there is joy in creating something from nothing, and coding is a perfect medium for that.

We offer 3 semesters of instruction during the school year (fall, winter, spring) and a summer session. Students learn how to make things - from websites of their favorite animals to games like Super Mario Brothers. Advanced students can take high school level Java, Python and learn web networking and databases using node.js and Mongo DB.

There are Scratch classes for grades 1-3, HTML/Javascript classes for students in grades 4-8 and Python and Java classes for middle school and high school students.

If you are interested, please sign up for a free trial course that is offered throughout the year.